SPF13
JANUARY 14, 2010
Someone asked me a question today “Why would anyone choose SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) instead of REST (Representational State Transfer)?” My response: “The general rule of thumb I’ve always heard is ‘Unless you have a definitive reason to use SOAP use REST’”. He asked “what’s one reason?” I thought about it for a minute and honestly answered that I haven’t ever come across a reason.
Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 1, 2010
For the last few years Richard Watson of NowandNext has created annual trend maps based on city subway maps. This year he has been more ambitious, creating a highly detailed map with five time zones, ranging from 2010-2015 out to 2035-2050. For the previous three trend maps (shown at the bottom) I collaborated with Richard and we co-branded them with Future Exploration Network, however time pressures this year meant that I haven't directly contributed to the 2010 map.
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Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 28, 2010
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Thursday, January 28, 2010. How the iPad could be a Game Changer.
Fountainhead
JANUARY 4, 2010
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Monday, January 4, 2010. Hosting & Cloud Computing market index: Update. Last month I proposed that another way to measure adoption of cloud computing (or, at least, expectations of adoption) was to look at the stock market performance of a bundle of publicly-traded service provider companies.
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I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JANUARY 19, 2010
Like many parents, I always enjoyed taking my sons to their first day of school when they were young. One year in particular stands out. My elder son was just starting the second grade, his second year at this school. As we walked in on the first day of class, it seemed as if a party were going on. Kids were roaming the halls, teachers and staff were talking to each other and the kids, asking how them about their summer and telling them what a great year it was going to be.
Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
JANUARY 4, 2010
Last month (Dec 09) I posted this question on Linkedin: Are the consulting firms partly to blame for the fact that only a relatively small minority of companies have adapted their internal culture to the knowledge intensive economy? In so few companies are collaborators incentivize to internally share freely their valuable knowledge (and rewarded for it).
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Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 22, 2010
Some very interesting data just out from Nielsen on social media usage. The headline is that people in developed countries are spending 82% more time on social media than they were one year ago. However the data point that struck my interest most is that. Australia is #1 globally in usage of social media. This is a real news. For many years I was bemoaning the slow uptake of social networks in Australia.
Social, Agile and Transformation
JANUARY 4, 2010
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Monday, January 04, 2010. Why CIOs Must Negotiate before Collaboration.
Sean Daniel
JANUARY 14, 2010
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, January 14, 2010. Understanding SSL Certificates. I get a lot of questions on understanding certificates in general, this post is intended to answer those general questions and is not specific to any product. Although I plan on using Windows Home Server and Windows Small Business Server 2008 as examples here.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JANUARY 3, 2010
As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Dan Pink ’s new book Drive touches on something that I’ve been thinking about for many years: the role – or lack thereof – of mastery in the workplace. I’ve been going through my archives pulling together my thoughts on the subject over the years and found the following, originally posted in April 2004 under the title “Employee-Employer Relations in a Knowledge Based Economy&#.
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Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
JANUARY 28, 2010
Check the full news article on the W.L. Gore & Associates website but here is the extract that made my day: [.] In addition to its diverse innovations, Gore is known for its unique, team-based culture and flat management style. President and CEO Terri Kelly said Gore remains true to its core values, even in the face of challenging business conditions.
SPF13
JANUARY 18, 2010
HeyThereSpaceman Today I was visiting a friends office and like many offices in NYC they have a shared bathroom in the hall for the entire floor. In this building it had five buttons on the door that when pressed in the correct order unlocked the door. A simple password. In our office we have a similarly shared bathroom, but instead of a password, we have a physical key required to unlock the door.
Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 14, 2010
Software firm Sysomos has provided some more interesting research on Twitter usage. Using this data, we have analyzed which countries use Twitter the most on a per capita basis, shown below. I did the same analysis from Sysomos' report in June, showing the most prominent Twitter nations on a per capita basis at the time, according to the data provided.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
JANUARY 12, 2010
'We have a Time Machine. It is one way, moving 60 seconds an hour, 24 hours a day, into The Future. The Consumer Electronics Show is a window into The Future. Technology demonstrated there this week will be available to early-adopter consumers and businesses in the next year or two, and will be available at Costco soon thereafter. And it has at least one common theme – networks will have to be fast.
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Sean Daniel
JANUARY 5, 2010
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Tuesday, January 05, 2010. How to enable “GodMode” in Windows 7. Ever wish you could just get to all the configuration changes in Windows with one folder, instead of going back and forth in the Control Panel? Well, now you can. Elegant Code has a blog post on how to do this.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JANUARY 29, 2010
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Dan Pink when he spoke at a lunch event here in St. Louis. While we were eating lunch waiting for the main event, my friend Gene said to me, “You should write a book.&# Like many people I know, my initial reaction was along the lines of, “Yeah, sure. What would I write about?&# And yet… Over the weekend I gave the idea a bit more thought.
Fountainhead
JANUARY 26, 2010
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Tuesday, January 26, 2010. If you think Converged Infrastructure & Fabrics are niche, guess again. A few weeks ago, I Tweeted about an analyst conversation where it was looking like the market for Fabric Computing / Unified Computing would be growing rapidly in the foreseeable future.
SPF13
JANUARY 18, 2010
Amazon has done it again bringing another computing service to the masses. This time it’s the Content Delivery Network or CDN. Cloudfront is a direct competitor to other popular CDNs such as Akamai. While Akamai requires a fairly substantial amount of traffic to become a customer, Cloudfront doesn’t. It follows all of Amazons, pay for what you use mentality.
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Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 22, 2010
Serendipity is one of the most beautiful words in the English language. It originates from the story of "the Three Princes of Serendip", which tells the tale of three princes who had the faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries (see more on the story here ). For the last decade I have been talking about the idea of "enhanced serendipity". For example I wrote about how I used social networking software to create enhanced serendipity at a Living Networks event that I ran in New York in 2
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
JANUARY 27, 2010
'Broadband Wireless. On January 26th Admiral Jamie Barnett of the FCC spoke about the National Broadband Plan , which is now due out on March 17 th (and I understand New York City, Boston and other cities with large Irish-American populations plan to have parades in honor of the plan that day, too!). As a CTO, I’m so immersed in technology that I’m not sure “broadband” means anything to the average American (if an “average” American exists).
Sean Daniel
JANUARY 7, 2010
'SeanDaniel.com [tech]. Technology Tips, Tricks & News Home | Technical Blog |. Photo Blog | E-Mail Me. Thursday, January 07, 2010. How to Lock Down a Windows 7 Kiosk or shared PC. Browsing my one of my favorite RSS feeds: LifeHacker. I came across something that might be useful to a bunch of Small Business Server VAPs configuring your network. In many cases, some companies like to provide a courtesy kiosk for visiting folks or perhaps they have a single computer for the break room.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JANUARY 14, 2010
In Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School , author John Medina discusses the importance of sleep ( Rule #7: Sleep well, think well ): Why do we sleep? It may be so that we can learn. The brain replays information learned during the day hundreds of times while we saw logs. You’d be more productive if you took an afternoon nap, too.
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Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 24, 2010
Well there are already plenty of opinions flying around and some excellent comments on my post yesterday Australians are #1 globally in usage of social media: Why? , which pointed to new research showing this startling result. I guess it’s time for me to offer some of my thoughts, helped along by the conversation so far. Be sure to read the insightful comments on the topic !
Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 18, 2010
I am running a two-day executive program on Relationship Management for Financial Services in Kuala Lumpur on 28-29 January, organized by IBN International. The workshop will be attended by executives from a variety of local and global financial institutions in South-East Asia. Over the last few years I have spent less time on these issues as I've broadened my scope to look at the future of business, however much of my earlier career was in financial services, working at Merrill Lynch and Thomso
Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 10, 2010
Here is a video of a very interesting interview of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Mike Arrington of Techcrunch. There are a number of very interesting comments by Zuckerberg in the interview, including on how Facebook Connect is so fundamental to the company. He said that "obviously much more is going to be developed outside of Facebook than inside," meaning that the development of Facebook into a platform is critical.
Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 14, 2010
When I wrote my recent article Creating the Future of Media : 4 Driving Forces, 4 Strategic Issues, 4 Essential Capabilities for Media Titles magazine, they kindly offered Future Exploration Network a full page ad in the magazine. The ad provides a nice overview of our current work with media organizations that are having to develop and implement strategies on the fly as the industry landscape shifts.
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Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 20, 2010
Over the holidays Mark Fidelman launched his 2010 Enterprise 2.0 All-Star Blogger Roster. Mark says: Now that the holiday hangover has worn off and the bills are coming due, I want to turn your attention to the individuals that are most influencing the Enterprise 2.0 space. Those of you that are early adopters or just starting to research Enterprise 2.0 can short cut the search for quality information by following and reading from these all-stars.
Trends in the Living Networks
JANUARY 11, 2010
Over the last couple of years the AdAge 150 has collated a dynamic list of the top blogs in advertising, media, and marketing. The list actually covers over 1,000 blogs, and ranks them daily by prominence, using a variety of sources including rankings from Alexa, PostRank, and Collective Intellect, as well as a subjective ranking by the list developer Todd Andrlik.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JANUARY 11, 2010
From Seth Godin’s recent article Why ask why? The secret to creativity is curiosity… The student with no curiosity… is no problem at all. Lumps are easily managed. Same thing is true for most of the people we hire. We’d like them to follow instructions, not ask questions, not question the status quo. This reminded me of something I jotted down in my notebook from Richard Farson’s book Management of the Absurd : Real creativity, the kind that is responsible for brea
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JANUARY 7, 2010
In the summer of 2007 I had the opportunity to ask Dr. Blaine McCormick , author of Ben Franklin: America’s Original Entrepreneur , what he thought Franklin would make of the internet, social networking software, and blogs. McCormick’s response was along the lines of, “Franklin probably wouldn’t pay much attention to them, blogs are not up to the right standard.”.
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